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Re: Haynes Sterling Silver Clarinet

Author: Lorenzo_M
Date: 2012-08-25 06:43

Some work got done on it just to make it playable (not concert-ready or anything...but you can play a few scales and arpeggios up and down). It was more to just hear the thing and see what it might sound like, than anything serious.

I must say, it played pretty decently in THAT condition, overhauled I think it would sound great. If you like bigger bore clarinets that is...it certainly felt like a large bore horn. Someone took a video...but I hope it's not on Youtube. There were some heavy players in the shop and I was kind of...embarrassed....lol.

I'm don't mean to start the whole "material matters" discussion here, but I'm just going to state that to MY ears, behind the instrument, the sterling silver just plain sounded different. It had a different vibration and ring in the sound...the unmistakable sound of sterling silver. I've owned sterling silver mouthpieces, played sterling silver necks, have sterling silver flutes....etc....some of you will know what I mean (I hope). It didn't have the same bright, brassy quality metal clarinets tend to have...but that could very well be because of the wall thickness and bore, as opposed to the material.

If I had the money, I'd buy it.... and maybe even use it